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Show DO NOT BE SURE. The leaders of the democracy are trying to formulate for-mulate a platform of principles that will appeal to the American people for favor. It seems probable that one plank will be a denunciation de-nunciation of the present Philippine policy and of colonization. This will be a dangerous experiment. experi-ment. The same mistake cost the old Whig party itb life, though it charged truly that the underlying under-lying thought of the annexationists was to increase the area of human slavery. All that transpired during the lives of many people now living. They watched and when the annexation was made and the war with Mexico was fought through, in their blindness they were ready to ailirm that God had seemed to desert our country. Some of these were the brainiest men of the republic. But mark the result and note how all their foreboding came to nought. When the slave power believed that all its plans were perfected, even then eternal justice was adjusting ad-justing the irrevocable balances and lo! slavery in the flames of war and amid its wreck and death perished. Texas, from a border land where the criminals of two countries congregated emerged into a glorified state, so great that now its products pro-ducts are a mighty factor in the commerce of a great world. Suppose it had remained a province of Mexico, alive with criminals and destitute of order and organized or-ganized society, what would it amount to except a menace to civilization? God did not cease to keep watch, never withdrew His guiding hand. Rather, in addition to Texas the states on the west coast were secured which supplied the money which enabled the government to maintain its credit in the stress of the great war, and which have so supplied the country with newly-create'd money that it has advanced to the fore front of nations. This has all been accomplis hed in the life time of men now living who were of an age to understand when the curtain rolled up for the presentation of the first act of the august drama. It ought to be a notice to our democratic and mugwump friends that they may possibly be mistaken mis-taken in attempting to read the plans of the Infinite In-finite or to anticipate His purposes. At first our country was dedicated to freedom. Oft across the sea is a continent which since before be-fore the first page of written history was transcribed tran-scribed was dedicated to tyranny and oppression. Maybe it has been determined to do away with that oppression and that the United States is to be the active force in that consummation. But the war says some one; yes, the war and all its sufferings; suf-ferings; but then there is another thought. Nature makes her reforms through violence. Hei agents are the cyclone, the storm, the frost j and multitudes more scourges. Mie sets the glacier in flow to grind the moun-B moun-B tain tops into soil for generations of beings who, B as et, and perhaps for a million years to come, B exibt only in the mind of the Infinite. Finite B minds shpuld not be too eager to read in the signs B what God's will is. The most pronounced sign B that has so far been given was the sailing of Ad-B Ad-B mirul Dewey's fleet into Manila Bay, and which B brotn forever the arm of despotism there without B the oss of a man or ship. B That meant somethtrig and the democracy B will be foolish if they wrongly read the stars. |
